Debs' totally bombastic (and completely awesome) opening paragraph is a classic example of parallelism. In fact, it's so nice he does it twice. "I said then, and I say now" is simple parallelism. B...

In the section where Debs is describing the horrors of industrial capitalism, he employs hyperbole to make his point about the monstrousness of this system. He speaks of children being thrown "into...

Debs definitely does deliver dedicated discourse divinely.Whoops. Guess we're maybe a little too riled up by Debs' masterful rhetoric.Alliteration is the rhetorical device that Debs most heavily re...

The whole final paragraph of the "Statement," where Debs talks about the mariners who guide their ships by the Southern Cross, is an allegory, a story with surface and symbolic meanings. Sailors in...